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Louder Than Love by Soundgarden
Louder Than Love is an album by Soundgarden, released in 1989. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hands All Over”, on 7 lists with a best position of #117.
Louder Than Love, Soundgarden's second album, hit the racks on A&M Records on September 5, 1989, and it's the moment Seattle's sludge went major-label. After touring behind Ultramega OK the band walked out on SST and signed with A&M, the first of the grunge bands to make that leap, and they came out swinging. Terry Date produced, and the sound is as heavy as wet concrete: Kim Thayil's guitar grinding out riffs that owe more to metal than to punk, songs that lurch through odd time signatures with Matt Cameron keeping them upright, Hiro Yamamoto's bass underneath, and Chris Cornell's voice wailing over the top.
"Loud Love" and "Hands All Over" became the radio calling cards, while the lyrics of "Big Dumb Sex" got the sleeve slapped with a Parental Advisory sticker. It was the band's first album on the Billboard 200 and the first grunge record ever to get there, peaking at 108. Tours of North America and Europe followed, and it was Yamamoto's last Soundgarden album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Louder Than Love on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hands All Over | 7 | #117 | – | 1994–2019 | |
| 2 | Loud Love | 6 | #350 | – | 1995–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.